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Bamboo

108 Flowers - Book 1 • 18m

Bamboo, one of the Four Gentlemen in Chinese brush painting and Sumi-e. It symbolizes virtue and is know to be strong but flexible. It's one of the most practiced subject in brush painting and some even spend a lifetime to master.

Ning Yeh simplifies the bamboo structure of trunk, rings/nodes, twigs and uses three different composition to illustrate the different formation and cluster of leaves with a "Newborn Bamboo" study, a "Windy Bamboo" study and a "Rainy Bamboo" study. Watch, study and quickly produce three different compositions in this short study!

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